We check CCTV for THEFT of Cosworth Turbo worth £1300!
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Yet another Cosworth day guys as I try to complete yet another engine in the Cossie lineup, it’s been a busy 2 weeks but with all the confusion and mayhem in the workshop we have no explanation for a missing Turbocharger boxed up for sending off, could it have been stolen? We check the cctv!
To be honest, the way you guys leave pallets outside waiting for collection I'm surprised nothing has been stolen before.
With so many valuable and now sometimes hard to get hold of parts sat around near the door I'm amazed you keep it open.... especially when quite often you basically tell us through videos in real time what is ready to be shipped.....
It's a sad state of affairs if it has been stolen Lee, but it will make you think about security and who has access to the shop floor. TBH, other people may not be allowed on the shop floor due to H&S policies and insurance cover. Having a dedicated goods in and goods out would help with your traceability and security. The workshop could do with some planning and organisation to ease these problems. You said you may hire someone for office duties, they could also be responsible for goods in & goods out! Make the company proactive instead of reactive. I hope you find it, but if not, it's not the end of the world and it's not your fault. Stay cool man!
Hi Lee, a friend of mine use to have a workshop in London. Two weeks previously bought an expensive Mercedes’. While working in the workshop on a customer’s vehicle two thieves entered the office and took the keys for the Mercedes. The estate security was off that day and the thieves calmly drove away without being challenged. Yes all car’s keys are now locked in a key safe to stop a recurrence happening. You will need to beef up security. Another friend had the workshop separate from his front off with a mat sensor to indicate anyone entering the front office when unoccupied.
The missing turbo, is an opportunity for you guys to increase your security AND to improve your processes, so that items are not left just inside the roll up door. Also do you have a job planning white board in the office, or is every project stored in your short term memory? This is also a reason for having an office person to arrange and track the inbound and outbound items. This will free you up to do more chargeable hours in the machine shop.
Can't believe you're using a 3 jaw chuck!
I have cameras and "announcers" connected to beams covering all access points. I hope that the turbo is sitting in a "hidden" area, out of sight.
I always look forward to your videos. They tend to be a stress reliever for me. Business is nearly frantic here. It has been virtually impossible to hire any talent to help with ongoing projects.
Be good, Remain safe. Wishing you a Deluxe day!
Set up a switchable alarm beam across the door so your alerted to anyone walking in
it gets worse as you get older so you will have to get used to it later in life , thanks for the video
Normally 10mm sockets. :)
@@damianbutterworth2434 this time something a little bit bigger than a ten mil socket lol
Amen to that!Car keys,phone,theres a black hole leading to another "Lost Things "universe .Worse part is having a trained ,organised ,Nurse as wife who is long past offering suggestions and just gives the "LOOK" @@damianbutterworth2434
Checklists and written notes taped to boxes are some of my solutions to my terrible short term memory. 40 years ago when I was a Mopar parts counter guy I learned to keep all my scratch pad pages where I looked up parts for walk-ins that were price checking. Often some time would pass and here is that customer now wanting to buy the parts. Root around in the box with the notes and voila, much time saved not having to look them up again.
I HATE thieves! I'm in the process of updating my home built "Frankenstein" home security system that I did some 20+ years ago. Two cameras, each with a 355 degree sweep. Covers the whole yard. Motion sensing, heat sensing, haven't programmed them yet...
I only work on my own cars in my driveway (now retired) but If I so much as come inside to piss I pull the door down! Quiet neighborhood but the neighbor across the street does one of those AirBNB deals and some of his "guests" look a bit sketchy...
BTW that "contraption" @4:45 is commonly called a "Steady Rest" by the machinist community... 😁
Call in CID, SAS and MI5, then look under your bed. Sorted. It always works for me.
Maybe a silly question but, have you checked your bins / skip...? Or whatever you use.
I would close the big door and have people enter via the main person door into a sterile reception area, where I would leave nothing. Friends and trusted people could come into the shop, everyone else could be escorted. Deliveries and parts collection could wait until you take the item in to them. It might seem unfriendly but just say its insurance reasons like everyone else. If you need ventilation in hot weather with the big door open, have a mesh door/fence you can easily unlock to open it when needed.
Can imagine it's nice to have the workshop doors open during the summer, but as an easy device is to have a light beam sensor across the doorway to sound a small panel buzzer, so at least you know if someone entered and also let's the person know that you know they are there
Have you looked down the back of the sofa? Whenever I lose something that's the first place I look.
@@bensclassicbodywork I am *everywhere* at all times 🙂
check your bins, recyling etc my wife lost her purse, swore blind it had been stolen, but oh no, it was in a carrier bag, that she threw out, and in the bin, and found on bin day. lucky!
We always maintained a shipping/receiving log. A simple form on a clipboard that noted the pertinent details. Saved us many frustrations in situations like this. I takes less that 30 seconds to make the entry. Even over a year, much less time than what you are going through.
Get a door fitted in the shutter maybe with some kind of alert the whole workshop office etc can hear when opened. Possibly a goods in and out area of some sort... Sure it will be missed place.. Great content keep um coming..
If my experience is anything to go by, the missing turbo will turn up somewhere you've already looked several times.
In my experience you won't find the turbo and will have to buy a new one.
And then a day or two after you have fitted the new one the old one will magically reappear.
You might have accidentally packed it in another customers job.
I have quite a few spares for the bike I've just finished. All because I couldn't find the original parts and bought new to replace them
I've done this so many times when I've been burning the candle. I've scratched my head and thought to myself "why the eff would I put that in there?"
That is exactly how thing normally go here....
I'd have a bit of extra money for every time that I've bought something that I already had, couldn't find, and then found a month after I bought another one. That's what happens when you have tools and things absolutely everywhere. If I built a bigger shop I'd just have more things to lose 🤣
And you will usually find something you have lost, while looking for something else that you have lost.@@dc6233
I had a UPS and a Parcelforce collection waiting. UPS picked both up! First I knew about it was the customer messaging me saying UPS had delivered something with a Parcelforce label.
That's brutal. A lot of time taken away from you. It really does seem to me that having a dedicated admin and logistics person would be a good thing.
You need to put a camera dedicated to watching the door for delivery and pick-up, but you probably put it to the side 😂 done that plenty, 😊 hope it turns up, before you pay for another, the camera would help for any further claims, thanks for sharing, all the best to you and your loved ones
Slightly disappointing that people have access too the work shop that’s unattended where you have customers property. That don’t fill people with confidence tbh.
@@paulf2529 very unprofessional
@@tomlunn5332 I see the peanut gallery are in tonight.
In a workshop these situations happen I can tell you guys aren't in the trade very judgemental rain it in
@@conparry4292 Paul has been hanging shit on Lee from the beginning.
It's all too common in many businesses. Local garage had a customer's car stolen during their lunch break as it was sitting with keys in.
Very easy to be complacent until it all goes wrong.
At least it's only a turbo that can be replaced rather than something exotic and irreplaceable
As I used to say when repairing heavy plant and couldn't find a part I know I had ...it was always that Chinese Bloke Sum Kunt that move it somewhere else...😂😂
Definitely a good idea to get rid of that stock PCV because that oil mist spraying into the intake decreases octane of your fuel which you know will cause pinging. And it's not good to have the piston rattling in the cylinder.
Oil mist increases octane mate
Think 2 stroke!
The lubricity of the oil is good for oiling the crank,etc and it adds 7% more power to the combustion.according to the dude who invented smoking
@@certificateofvaccinationi.d.19 You might want to do your research. It decreases with regular motor oil. Two-stroke oil is formulated different from conventional or synthetic motor oil.
@@certificateofvaccinationi.d.19 But 4 stroke oil isn't good for valves, it would create carbon build up. My dear ole Dad likes to add some 4 stroke oil to his 2 stoke gas mix, I keep telling him that he isn't helping. And that he is just clogging up the exhaust or the top of the piston, can't teach an old dog new tricks though...
@@70sAirForceBrat Very much so, see my comment below...
It will be on a shelf under a bench somewhere! It was on the bench, someone wanted the bench space, tucked it under the bench and forgot about it! I know you already checked those spaces but, check again!
If you put the turbo in a unlabeled, taped up box, a thief wouldn't know what was in it so speculative theft and trying their luck hoping the box would yield some engine parts worth stealing.
He's got a high end engine shop, just about any heavy box he has probably holds something of value...
You got a DPD delivery. You lucky fellow I am waiting 6 days for my DPD delivery and still waiting.
You should get a sensor filled at the shutter that rings a bell anyone time its passed we had one in our old place it was great as soon as it went off we knew someone was coming in even better it alerted 📢 if the gaffer was coming in 😅 so we had tims to get off our phones 😅😅😅
It sounded as if you were going to put a M8 thread in an 8.5 hole - good trick if you can do it!
He can always helicoil it or use a threaded insert. But, I thought it should have been more of an interference fit myself, it seems very loose. Bolts just hold things together, they don't really add strength; that piece may just gives a signal to a sensor, but camshafts spin very fast, so there will be centrifugal forces on that little end piece. I hope I'm wrong...
Just have to go through all the footage and look at getting 1 installed to cover that area. Keep an eye on FB market place as well, might see a new listing with the turbo.
When you got random people coming in you dont know if someones sniffing whilst they keep you busy , Garage near me two blokes come in kept the staff busy asking about used cars outside whilst outside showing them the cars they had £15k cash gone out the safe, reckon it was someone who had worked there and passed the combo on for the safe. .Dont leave anything near the door end of
Reminds me of the missing vessel lid ,worked as engineering manager chemical plant I went on holiday and a vessel lid had gone for weld and shot blast. Plant on shutdown under work permit lid had been brought back no one around driver put it under table in workshop left it no one knew it was a week lost before starting up
does your cctv recorder have motion detection? if so search for motion in the areas where a thief would have used to get to the box. fingers crossed
I used to work at Truscotts back in the day.The sales team lost a 407 estate,it was missing for nearly a week....Police got involved etc.Anyway,turns out a manager had parked it on a grass verge at Roundswell petrol station (yards away) with promo signage all over it!! When we found the car it had been slept in by some bum that left it in hella state!!!
These things happen I guess
Hi lee I’d get one of your lads to scour eBay and see if it’s on there. Might be able to locate it if it’s someone local that’s pinched it.
Fiit a chiming sensor across your big door, so if you're on your own invoicing and someone walks through the big door, you will know because it will let out a chime, and you'll hear it
A thief has gotta be real lucky with his timing Lee to drop in when nobody is in the workshop to take advantage. Be interested in whether the cctv turns anything up.
In that camshaft, didn't you want a tighter or interference fit in that application? Seemed that it fit a bit loose, to where the bolt itself is doing all the work. And we've all learned that can often result in a broken bolt. Maybe there is no pressure on that cam trigger whatsoever? Just curious...
Have a look through footage you made for your youtube channel. See if that captures the box the turbo was in.
Have you checked to see if if it's holding the door open?
Sounds like one of those things that is hiding in plain sight. HTH
My TVR engine been stolen has it ?
you checked the turbo repair shop?
This lowering stress thing doesn't seem to be working out so well. Press it out of your mind. Go do something else. Later, and with more calm, it may well turn up. Get someone to check your CCTV files and your previous episodes so you can tell when and where it last resided. Good luck.
Need to put, a slide gate on front doors that locks and a buzzer for when some one wants to deliver or a pick up. To many light fingers types out there.
On the retro fit cam timing lobe do you have to install it timed up in phase with a lobe of the cam? Also looked better with a 12.9 cap head bolt than a hex bolt
Check your bins. I've thrown stuff away, inadvertently, before now.
Put a door sensor on your roller doors, chimes when someone walks through.
Bet it's either been thrown in the bin or its in the workshop in a different box?
Have you not sent it out in another order by mistake. As you said, you reuse Mahle boxes for courier purposes. I could have easily been sent out in error.
The box with the turbo in is in your garage and in a safe place ,to safe and you will come across it when you have built another one up. Then you willsay 14:14
I work in a depot that takes and recieves boxes
If u did not actually see dpd come and go with your own eyes it’s that
Never leave your shutters open any one can take stuff especially a small box
I bet the dpd driver will return it in a couple of days
Cheers Lee, come on, how many more times do we have to say it? TIGHTEN UP!!.
Does the cam have an oil way in there, just saying to not go to deep and block the end bearing.
Hope u find the turbo.
No oil passage in a cam shaft , comes through the head
Check your bins
Indeed, well said!
Noticed your shutter door is always open to the “street” when you have a unit full of “desirable” items. Hope its not stolen and be surprising if it has, my money is on it turning up due to some unusual circumstances
im sure someone has accidentally loaded it up with the wrong engine assy. and sent it out, i hope you get it back but doubtful
Claim on insurance when property not secure locked down
It’s normally closer to you than you think
i'll put something in a safe place so it don't get banged up.
thinking i'll put it in ,say a box later.
mind says you put it in a box.
the bleeding thing can be staring at me until i'm looking for something else.
Then it's wtf...garage fairies.......no, i was trying to find a box, not say, a turbo shaped bundle of bubble wrap.
good luck and happy hunting :-)
Maybe you need to build a secure cage for attractive parts.
Does his shop look like it has any room for a cage? Hope he finds it but thieves are everywhere, especially with a wide open border in the US. Watch what happens to this country with this invasion, crime and drugs were bad enough as they were...
Say a quick prayer to St Anthony (the saint of misplaced items) I'm sure he'll impel you to find it. "Dear St. Anthony, please come around: something is lost, and it cannot be found." Sorry about the pun.
Take a deep breath and look again
you have to rant, rave chuck half the building around first...... then sit down and its right there.. EVERY FREAKING TIME!!!
Isn't that the bloody truth. And it gets worse with age. I'm 74 and fairly resigned to process. Bad for the blood pressure, though.
I want turbo too ... Please send some of them to Dinmark ... It's England East .. Just on the other side... Esberg first... Just come come . Hope u got good gifts and had a good day of B ..! !
14:38 My mind also plays tricks on me. For reasons too complicated to explain here, we have to hide things in our house. I have "hidden" many things that are now missing, spare cell phones, a tablet, expensive pocket knife, keys.... Just this week I hid 2 keys away. Took me hours of searching only to find them in my jacket pocket hanging on a chair. Checked all my usual places, you know, in a shoe, inside my printer, inside an RC aircraft, the fireplace...idiot me.
Many years ago my Dad taught me to hide my money. Yeah, well, you can guess what's happened. I've hidden money in stupid places and never found it again.
This may sound silly. But. Have you checked in areas around the workshop you would never usually put stuff?. I personally stick to putting certain things in specific places. Just like car keys for example. But the one day you just put them down whilst you do something else.... takes me hours to find again... just sit back n think..:)
Hope you find it 🙏🙏
found my phone in the fridge the other day, put it in there with a bar of chocolate of the same size, spent a few hours looking for it
It's been chucked away with the metal waste or the box away with the cardboard recycling.
I have had missing stuff turn up in my workshop more than10 years later. Bermuda Triangle.
You said you leave your main doors open and anyone can walk in, good luck with your insurance, they will laugh at you
Unlikely, did you pick it up to put it in the office for collection or the spare work table behind the office and get distracted, even going to the toilet!!??
Id still like a quote for a d4f 722. Tolerance check, new seals, piston rings and gaskets.
Pick an engine up for 500-700 mate chuck a lump init
Shouldn't you be emailing or giving them a call?
It’s hiding in plain sight, something has been put on top of it or its in another box/crate - in or on the vapour blaster
I doubt someone will walk past all the stuff by the door on the shelf and all the tools to take a turbo
It’s under the wrong bench in the build area
I’ve not known anyone who gets luck like this,one thing after another,it would really piss the arse of me,with balls up and breakings enough is enough,I’ve been rebuilding engines all my life and never experienced anything like this,admittedly I never played around with these high performance engines,their not worth the bother.
All for the views and attention no doubt. Not about building engines anymore unfortunately…
He certainly does seem to run into his fair share of trouble. Might be because he tries to do so much by himself...
Hopefully it'll turn up fingers crossed 🤞as has been stated by others on here, you really need to keep the doors down or a barrier to stop anyone just walking in! At work we had a safe go missing and a 7.5t truck taken whilst staff were in the office and workshop,also from a health and safety perspective customers/general public shouldn't be allowed in the workshop,anyone that is should be chaperoned by a member of staff to ensure safety and security. I know it's a ballache but you'd be surprised how easy it is to get stuff nicked,the truck was taken whilst late shift were having their break and the dude had a man inside eg an agency driver who knew where the keys were stored. Truck disappeared along with the driver and believed to be in Poland somewhere 😬 Hopefully it'll turn up and you're putting stuff down and forgetting things I've been doing that for years now 🤣🤣🤣
Almost all thefts are someone that knows what you have. Sadly, they are often friends or coworkers...
Contraption = 'Steady rest'. We call them steady rests here in America.
Check your UA-cam videos as well and see the last time it was seen?
Its probably been put in a silly place. Let's hope you find it ..
May have to look at putting in another camera. .
It's the sign of the times now I'm afraid .if its not nailed down
It will go walkie. 👍👍👍👍
Time for a mesh gate across the main door to keep people out and let light /fresh air in
This will sound rediculous, but why does Lee have a capital N on his face.?
This channel is surely becoming really bad for your business nothing but warranty claims stolen property any good luck stories or is it all just going downhill
Its right there, on the work bench.... in a box..
7:06 for the actual video thumbnail and what we all clicked to see
You’ve just put it safe probably.
Good luck.
AT LAST, FIRST! WOOT!!
That’s what happens when you leave parts lying outside and unattended
Check the skip.
Is the turbo in the back of your van?
I hope you catch that thief.
It's basically where you left it .
That's what my mother used to tell me as well. I think she always really meant it. Big help.😖
It's behind you...
Just don't worry.
You have lost a turbo, I lost 2wd YB cam caps and bolts. Was 100% sure they where on the head when I moved shop. Now I have two heads and zero cam caps.
Have you checked your tradesman's entrance ? Maybe somebody shoved it there for you ?
Pretty sure that you would notice a turbo that size up the tradesmans🤣
You should not anybody into the workshop, if the door is open then you should have some sort of chain across it with a no entry sign. All deliveries, collection and customers should report to reception first., oh an sort that office manager out.
More drama, who'd have guessed? How about some good old engine building content for a change?
Not that kind of channel anymore. Hasn’t been for a while, he’s of the opinion this brings in more views….